Hands-on exercises

To support your learning with some practical skills, we will learn how to create some of the resources that we looked at in this chapter.

We will look at the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 – creating a VNet
• Exercise 2 – creating a storage account
• Exercise 3 – creating a VM
• Exercise 4 – creating an Azure container instance
• Exercise 5 – creating an Azure web app

Getting started

To get started with these hands-on exercises, you must create a free Azure account at https://azure.microsoft.com/free.

This free Azure account provides the following:

• 12 months of free services
• $200 credit to explore Azure for 30 days
• 25+ services that are always free

Let's move on to the first exercise.

Exercise 1 – creating a VNet

In this section, we will look at how to create a VNet.

Follow these steps to create a VNet:

1. Log into the Azure portal at https://portal...